Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-09-27
CRIMINAL MODES
Fraud and Forgery ReSOrted To
In POwell's Interests.
FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS, PuR-
PORTING TO BE GOV. FORA
keR's TAX MESSAGE,

Issu~d and Circulated ny the Democratic
Committee and Printed In Dem ocratic
Newspapers Methods which
Should End the Powell Cam psign Now.
inal frauds ever perpetrated in Ohio
has just been committed under the direc-
ton Of the Democratic state executive
committee, and has the approval Of the
Democratic candidate for governor, T. f.
Powell, who is in daily conference
with the committee The Democratic
newspapers of the state have been party
10 the crime either knowingly OF through
ignorance. At the outset of the cam
paign the Democratic newspapers of the
state joined in abI.se of Governor Fora
ker, and claimed Tat in special message
sent by him TO the Legislature he had ad-
vocated the increase of taxes upon farm
property. This lie fell fiat, and those
who had started it became laughing
stock. Farmers were too intelligent to
he deceived by it, and from all over the
state came protest from Democrats Of
sense against using such palpable false
hoods for campaign purposes Democrats
of any intelligence knew that the miser-
able falsehood would prove boomerang
and would injure the chances of their |
candidates Ruf fh.. naynA,rat;, t.t.
executive committee which had fathered |
the falSehood obstinately refused to drop |
their nefarious tactics, and finding that |
people were intelligent enough to read
Governor Foraker message and learn
for themselves that he had recommended |
nothing detrimental to the interest of the
farmers. they concluded to get up a mes
sage for him and circulate it through the
state. Nothing more infamous has been
attempted since the concoction OF the in
famous Morey letter. with which An at
tempt was made To defeat Garfield. The
Democratic committee got out three diff
ferent editions of what purported TO be a
special message delivered by Governor
their fabrication and forged fraud on the
message which had been delivered by
him, and which had received the com
of Democratic newspapers
They took this m--..age, chopped it to
pieces. garbled it, .anged words, dropped
ont whole sentences. changed figures. and
then had the audacity TO sign Gov. Fora
ker's name TO it. and printed it As mes
sage delivered by him. Their three edi-
tions differed from each other; and were
none Of them in fact the message which
had been delivered by Governor Foraker
Their object in getting ont three different
forms is not known. unless il was To pre-
vent any one from pointing out specific
ally the falsehoods and forgeries com
nitted in any one of them. In fact. they
may have got out a fourth or fifth edi-
ton different entirely from the other
.hree by this time. Their editions have
been of different dates, although all pur-
ported to be the, same message. Part Of
them are dated 1887 and part 1886. Dem
ocratic papers, for which the fraud was
published these forged and gar
bled messages, some of them printing
those dated 1887. Others those dated 1886
Even the venerable Leckey Harper and
other old mossback editors have been
guilty of publishing these messages. al
though it is to he hoped by those who
want to retain respect for them that they
have been deceived by the Democratic
executive committee. Such crime was
never before attempted thus early in the
even by the leaders OF Ohio
Democracy. While it was known that
Mr.. Powell was the commander in chief
Of the party, AMI responsible for its
in 1885. when the frauds
and forgeries at Cincinnati and Columbus
were perpetrated, and rs chairman of
the state executive committee is practi-
cally chargeable with having at least
been responsible for the attempts made
IN enjoy the fruits Of these frauds and
forgeries, it was generally supposed that
he had sufficient sense not TO allow such
an infamous forgery and fraud rs this 4,
now committed 10 be used To secure him
votes for governor. The commission of
such otfenses As these brazen and open
defiance of all rules of honesty indicate
the depth OF depravity which the Demo
cratic party leaders have reached in their ,
efforts 10 secure votes for Mr.. Powell
and show clearly that he has nothing to
commend him to the people, and that
they know he will be defeated over
this fall if an honest cam
paign is conducted. Such disreputable
means and methods as this will unioubt-
edly be pressed by the Democratic com
mittee throughout the campaign, and
and honest Democrats should
be on their guard against them, for Ger
tainly no honest Democrat will endorse
such methods as this. Nothing sent out
from Democratic headquarters can now
be believed.
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